The Anatomy of Melancholy, v1
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE LAST LONDON EDITION.
ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR.
EXTRACTED FROM THE REGISTRY OF THE PREROGATIVE
COURT OF CANTERBURY.
“TO THE READER.
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FRONTISPIECE.
THE AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT OF MELANCHOLY, [Greek:
Dialogos]
DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO THE READER.
THE FIRST PARTITION.
THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION. Man's
Excellency, Fall, Miseries, Infirmities; The causes of them.
- SUBSECT. II.—The Definition, Number, Division of
Diseases.
- SUBSECT. III.—Division of the Diseases of the Head.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Dotage, Frenzy, Madness, Hydrophobia,
Lycanthropia, Chorus sancti Viti, Extasis.
- SUBSECT. V.—Melancholy in Disposition, improperly
so called, Equivocations.
- SECT. I. MEMB. II.
- SUBSECT. I.—Digression of Anatomy.
- SUBSECT. II.—Division of the Body, Humours,
Spirits.
- SUBSECT. III.—Similar Parts.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Dissimilar Parts.
- SUBSECT. V.—Of the Soul and her Faculties.
- SUBSECT. VI.—Of the sensible Soul.
- SUBSECT. VII.—Of the Inward Senses.
- SUBSECT. VIII.—Of the Moving Faculty.
- SUBSECT. IX.—Of the Rational Soul.
- SUBSECT. X.—Of the Understanding.
- SUBSECT. XI.—Of the Will.
- MEMB. III.
- SUBSECT. I.—Definition of Melancholy, Name,
Difference.
- SUBSECT. II.—Of the part affected. Affection.
Parties affected.
- SUBSECT. III.—Of the Matter of Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Of the species or kinds of
Melancholy.
- SECT. II. MEMB. I.
- SUBSECT. I.—Causes of Melancholy. God a cause.
- SUBSECT. II.—A Digression of the nature of
Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. III.—Of Witches and Magicians, how they
cause Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Stars a cause. Signs from
Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Chiromancy.
- SUBSECT. V.—Old age a cause.
- SUBSECT. VI.—Parents a cause by Propagation.
- MEMB. II.
- SUBSECT. I.—Bad Diet a cause. Substance. Quality
of Meats.
- SUBSECT. II.—Quantity of Diet a Cause.
- SUBSECT. III.—Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite,
Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Retention and Evacuation a cause,
and how.
- SUBSECT. V.—Bad Air, a cause of Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. VI.—Immoderate Exercise a cause, and
how. Solitariness, Idleness.
- SUBSECT. VII.—Sleeping and Waking, Causes.
- MEMB. III.
- SUBSECT. I.—Passions and Perturbations of the
Mind, how they cause Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. II.—Of the Force of Imagination.
- SUBSECT. III.—Division of Perturbations.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Sorrow a Cause of Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. V.—Fear, a Cause.
- SUBSECT. VI.—Shame and Disgrace, Causes.
- SUBSECT. VII.—Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
- SUBSECT. VIII.—Emulation, Hatred, Faction, Desire
of Revenge, Causes.
- SUBSECT. IX.—Anger, a Cause.
- SUBSECT. X.—Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c.
Causes.
- SUBSECT. XI.—Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires,
Ambition, Causes.
- SUBSECT. XII.—[Greek: philarguria], Covetousness,
a Cause.
- SUBSECT. XIII.—Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures
immoderate; Causes.
- SUBSECT. XIV.—Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory,
Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, &c., Causes.
- SUBSECT. XV.—Love of Learning, or overmuch study.
With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are
Melancholy.
- MEMB. IV.
- SUBSECT. I—Non-necessary, remote, outward,
adventitious, or accidental causes: as first from the Nurse.
- SUBSECT. II.—Education a Cause of Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. III.—Terrors and Affrights, Causes of
Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how
they cause Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. V.—Loss of Liberty, Servitude,
Imprisonment, how they cause Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. VI.—Poverty and Want, Causes of
Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. VII.—A heap of other Accidents causing
Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c.
- MEMB. V.
- SUBSECT. I.—Continent, inward, antecedent, next
causes and how the body works on the mind.
- SUBSECT. II.—Distemperature of particular Parts,
causes.
- SUBSECT. III.—Causes of Head-Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Causes of Hypochondriacal, or Windy
Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. V.—Causes of Melancholy from the whole
Body.
- SECT. III. MEMB. I.
- SUBSECT. I.—Symptoms, or Signs of Melancholy in
the Body.
- SUBSECT. II.—Symptoms or Signs in the Mind.
- SUBSECT. III.—Particular Symptoms from the
influence of Stars, parts of the Body, and Humours.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Symptoms from Education, Custom,
continuance of Time, our Condition, mixed with other Diseases, by Fits,
Inclination, &c.
- MEMB. II.
- SUBSECT. I.—Symptoms of Head-Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. II.—Symptoms of windy Hypochondriacal
Melancholy.
- SUBSECT. III.—Symptoms of Melancholy abounding in
the whole body.
- SUBSECT. IV.—Symptoms of Maids, Nuns, and Widows'
Melancholy.
- MEMB. III. Immediate cause of these precedent
Symptoms.
- SECT. IV. MEMB. I. Prognostics of Melancholy.
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